Research driving you crazy? 

We'll steer you in the right direction!

Feeling stressed about research assignments? 
Struggling to format citations correctly? 
Want to make better use of your library time via advanced search techniques?

Come by one of our Research Clinics where we'll focus in on one specific topic to get you the personalized research help you need.  Stay for a few minutes or stay for the whole hour – it’s up to you!  All of the clinics will be held throughout the month of November, Mondays through Thursdays at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM, every day.   

Register HERE and view the schedule of clinics.

10 & 2 Research Clinics - Descriptions

Advanced Internet Searching

Do you surf the web for research material?  Are you uncertain of the quality of the material you find?  Are you frustrated at sifting through page after page of “useless” results?  If your answer is yes to any of these questions and you want to learn more effective methods of finding and evaluating information on the Internet, then this research clinic is for you. 

Advanced Searching in EBSCO

Academic Search Complete, ERIC, PsycINFO, Business Source Premier – do these databases sound familiar?  They all come from the vendor EBSCO and their interfaces are identical.  This one hour workshop will make you an EBSCO Guru, able to use limiters, save citations, set up search alerts, and use all the other bells and whistles in these powerful databases!

Advanced Science Database Searching

Science Direct, Web of Science, BioOne, and BioMed Central – some of the heavy hitters in the science database world! While all a bit different from each other in focus and scope, they have a number of similarities that makes becoming a searching expert in them a breeze! After this one hour clinic you’ll be able to use limiters, save citations, set up search alerts, and use all of the other powerful tools that these databases offer up to those in the know.

APA Citation Style

This one hour workshop will focus on formatting citations for books, articles, and electronic sources and will include hands on practice.  We will discuss in-text citation and how to create a reference page. You can even bring a paper you’re currently working on!

ARTstor (Image Database)

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.  This research clinic provides an introductory overview of the database.

Business Resources

Is business research driving you batty? Want to find company histories, income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements?  Market share, anyone?  Want a company SWOT analysis?  How about surveying a particular industry?  Come join me for a session covering how to choose and search our business databases. This workshop will also focus on the Business Subject Guide as well as the following databases: Gale’s Business & Company Resources, Business Source Premier (linked with other appropriate EBSCO databases), ABI Inform and more.

EndNote Web Citation Basics

EndNote Web is a slightly less powerful, yet web-based version of the ever-popular End Note citation software.  As part of our database access to Web of Science, all students and faculty at SU have access to EndNote Web, yet not many are aware of its power or abilities.  Spend an hour getting to know the basics of this online citation powerhouse, and see what help it can provide you in managing and even taming your ever-growing list of references. 

JSTOR

JSTOR is one of our more unique databases - created by academics for academics it is easy to search and contains over 1,000 leading scholarly journals across the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.  All of these titles include the entire run of pubished issues back to Volume 1, Issue 1 - specifically making this a unique and invaluable resource for historians.  Drop by to learn the inner workings of JSTOR, plus a few extra tips and tricks to guarantee that you get the best the database has to offer each and every time you search it!

Medical and Nursing Resources

All those medical jargons stressing you out? You want to know what MeSH, Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM), and Practice Guidelines are? You want to limit your literature review to a specific patient group? Then come to this clinic and we will cure your research worries! The clinic will focus on MEDLINE and/or PubMed, CINAHL (Nursing and Allied Health database via EBSCO), and Nursing & Allied Health Source (ProQuest).

MLA Citation Style

Be in Style -- MLA Style, that is! Puzzled by the MLA style manual?  Wondering how to cite a website or an unusual document in MLA format?  Come to the MLA Workshop for tips on how to solve these and other mysteries of the MLA citation.  Bring items that you are having difficulty with, or just come for the overview.

WorldCat Local – Our New One Stop Shop!

You are now able to search our collection and the collections of many other libraries worldwide using WorldCat Local, the world's largest network of library-based content and services.  Although WorldCat Local is a catalog of library-based content in the world, you'll always see information about SU collections first before any others. Everything you need is displayed right within the WorldCat Local record, including location and availability information for the item, and prominent button links to reserve or request an item or directly view electronic content such as the full text of an article.  Come to this informative overview about our newest database and learn how to bend the power of the “World Catalog” to your will and get the most this powerful database has to offer!